American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors & Their Descendents

The American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants is the umbrella organization of survivor groups and landsmanshaften of North America.

The mission of The American Gathering is remembrance, education and commemoration.

Among our major activities:
• The Benjamin and Vladka Meed Registry of Jewish Holocaust Survivors was established to document the lives of survivors who came to North America after World War II. Today, the registry contains information on more than 185,000 survivors and their families from all over the world. To further facilitate survivor use, the Registry is now also maintained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, where user-friendly computers allow visitors access to database names.

• The Summer Seminar Program on Holocaust and Jewish Resistance. The program brings teachers—Jewish and non-Jewish alike—to Poland and Washington, D.C. to partake in Holocaust related educational experiences. The program’s goals are to advance education in U.S. secondary schools about the Holocaust and Jewish resistance; to deepen knowledge and ability to implement Holocaust studies in the classroom; to teach each new generation about the Holocaust and Jewish resistance so that they will know, understand and never forget; and to further educational activities that use the lessons of the past as warnings for the present and the future.

• In 1988, the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors became one of only two Holocaust survivor organizations to join the Conference on Material Claims Against Germany. The organization is also a member of the World Jewish Congress, the World Jewish Restitution Organization and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. In that capacity, its mission is to be the moral authority on survivors’ rights and restitution.

• “Together” is the official publication of the American Gathering. With a circulation of approximately 90,000, it reflects the collective voice of survivors, the second and third generations, and includes news, opinions, information on education, commemorations, events, book reviews, announcements, searches, and articles on history and personal remembrance. Besides survivors and their descendants, contributors include professional writers, poets, thinkers, historians and Holocaust scholars.

Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teacher’s Program (www.hajrtp.org) The Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers’ Program is an intensive three week learning and living experience in Washington, DC, Poland, Germany and Israel for U.S. secondary school teachers who are committed to teaching about the Holocaust and Jewish resistance in their classes upon completion of the program.

Represent more than 170,000 survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants who have settled in America and Canada. Registry to document where people were from; tracing; documentation organization as well.

Publish Newspaper “Together”

Location

122 West 30th St. Suite 205
New York, NY 10001